Bill Text: IL SB3963 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Carbon Capture and Sequestration Title of the Environmental Protection Act. Prohibits a person from conducting a carbon sequestration activity over any federally designated sole source aquifer. Prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing a carbon sequestration permit if the Agency knows that the applicant is intending to conduct carbon sequestration activity over any federally designated sole source aquifer. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-10-11 - Referred to Assignments [SB3963 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB3963-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning safety.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | adding Section 59.18 as follows:
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| 6 | (415 ILCS 5/59.18 new) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 59.18. Sole source aquifer carbon sequestration | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | operations prohibited. No person shall conduct a carbon | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | sequestration activity over any federally designated sole | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | source aquifer, including, without limitation, the Mahomet | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Sole Source Aquifer. The Agency shall not issue a carbon | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | sequestration permit under this Title if the Agency knows that | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | the applicant is intending to conduct carbon sequestration | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | activity over any federally designated sole source aquifer, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | including, without limitation, the Mahomet Sole Source | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | Aquifer.
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